# Saudi monarch grants women right to vote **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-monarch-grants-women-right-to-vote/597618 "2011-09-26T02:07:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-monarch-grants-women-right-to-vote/597618/41 "2011-09-29T07:25:30Z")
It’s not a federation… do you mean national ones? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-monarch-grants-women-right-to-vote/597618/42 "2011-09-29T07:28:50Z")
Perhaps they will elect a new king next year… or a whole new Royal Family! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-monarch-grants-women-right-to-vote/597618/43 "2011-09-30T02:06:54Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > Does Saudi Arabia have any sort of federal elections? Nope. There are no national elections of any kind. The closest thing Saudi Arabia has to a legislature is an advisory council that’s 100% appointed by the King. They only just having local council elections a few years ago and IIRC half the membership of those councils is still appointed by the King (or by the interior minister in his name). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-monarch-grants-women-right-to-vote/597618.md?page=2)